Twenty players will represent Nigeria at the second edition of the African Youth Scrabble Championship (AYSC), to be hosted by Kenya in 2025, Sports247 reports.
This piece of information was made public on Friday by the head coach of Team Nigeria Scrabble youth category, Samuel Eromosele via FIRST ZEALMEDIACAST BLOG.
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Eromosele said there will be no Qualifier for the AYSC but the team will be selected from the sixty players under his watch.
“We opened our virtual camp on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 with ten players in camp, thereafter the camp rose to an eventual 60 players, the camp will be dispersed on Saturday the 21st of December to reconvene on Monday 6th January 2025 and will last for seven months.”
“We are going to Nairobi the Kenyan capital to defend all the titles we won on home soil in 2023. Then it was just Nigeria and four other countries but Kenya is likely to be bigger and tougher, so we must be proactive and get our team together,” coach Samuel Eromosele who is also the National Youth Scrabble coordinator stated.
Meanwhile, Captain of Team Nigeria to the World Youth Scrabble Championship 2024, Sufyan Boluwatife has been named as captain for Team Nigeria to the African Youth Scrabble Championship. He will be assisted by Michael Ogbonna and Hauwa Abdullahi.
We gathered that the Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF), has made arrangements for Invitation letters from PANASA to be issued to the players on the 10th of January with supporting documents from both the Nigeria Scrabble Federation and the Kenyan Scrabble Federation.
In a related development, sports stakeholders have appealed to the Federal Government through the National Sports Commission (NSC), to back Scrabble Youth Team Nigeria to the African Youth Championship financially.
It’s on record that the former Sports Ministry never paid attention to the growth of scrabble at youth level. It failed to foot the team’s bill to the maiden edition of the African Youth Scrabble Championship in Lagos as well as the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka, citing lack of funds
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